Sorry about that. To continue - Got home. Found Ann feeling better and getting up. Had breakfast, our usual porridge and an apple (pear in Ann's case) Then loaded toolbox and clock re-roping kit into car and drove to friend's home about fifteen miles away. Did necessary work to above photoed lantern clock on their landing. It is a good lantern clock by an Essex maker and was made in 1710 ( the bottom plate of the movement has been used by the original maker as an engraving practice plate and has the date engraved twice, his name (which is also well engraved on the dial) and the date 1710 in different scripts, also some stylised flowers). Left it in good working order again and had lunch with Penny and Hugh, our hosts/friends. We had kedgeree, salad, accompanied by a bottle of a dryish white wine, and then a cheese board with the coffee. Then back to work, and respliced the rope on a good Suffolk made thirty hour oak longcase clock. Left at about three thirty with both clocks ticking (and striking) away confidently. Came home via Lavenham, feeling tired, but satisfied that a good day's work had been done- always a pleasant feeling. Goodnight all.
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Mike
What is kedgeree?
Hello Lori. Kedgeree was originally an Indian dish, mainly rice with various flavourings. Nowadays it's a sort of dryish risotto, with rice, spices, and fish, sometimes with scaps of meat, red peppers, et cetera to give it colour. In Edwardian days I believe it was sometimes served for breakfast from a sideboard with the other hot dishes. I think they had better (or heartier) stomachs in those days. Makes a very good dish for a light lunch.
It really is a fine breakfast dish from a dietary perspective for vigorous young couples like yourselves. Complex carbohydrates, vitamins and roughage from the rice, protein and omega3 oils from the fish, and that spark of va-va-voom from the spices. Highly recommended to precede the deviled kidneys.
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